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10 Dec 2016 1:40:40pm

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Among the last-ditchers of the denialist cult is our friend, Marc. In fact, in the real world of rationality, science and basic human decency and concern for our descendants, the denialist cult is rapidly dying out, save for the congenitally dim, willfully ignorant and hard Right ideologues. Unfortunately for our prospects, that shrinking coterie includes the Abbott regime, the state Liberal regimes, the Murdoch obscenity and much of the business 'community'. The science remains rock-solid, 'settled science' as defined by the US National Academy of Sciences and accepted by every Academy of Science and scientific society on the planet. And the observations from reality, of melting montane glaciers, rapidly disappearing Arctic summer sea ice, methane emissions from Arctic clathrates, changes in animal behaviour and plant budding and fruiting times, horticultural and agricultural zones, distribution of pest species and diseases like malaria, the poleward advance of the line of permafrost and the increase in frequency and intensity of weather disasters like massive deluges and floods, is utterly unequivocal. What worries me is the reaction that will set in when the masses finally realise that we are stuffed, and that the denialists have peddled pure, malevolent, garbage for years. I fear that they might not all simply shrug their shoulders, commiserate with the denialists over their massive 'mistake' and wish them a good day, while they prepare themselves, psychologically and spiritually, for Hell on Earth. Some might just, possibly, be really, really, pissed off.

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